News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Billi American Horse, age 24, of Rapid City, South Dakota appeared before Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court, on March 11, 2013 and pled guilty to count II of a superseding indictment that charged her with conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. The penalty upon conviction is a minimum of 5 years up to 40 years’ imprisonment and/or a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: WILLIAM ELLIEN, 57, of Savannah, Georgia, pled guilty yesterday before the United States District Judge William Moore, Jr., for distributing drugs to his customers without a legitimate medical purpose.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate Floor today, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, said that despite Senate Democrats’ claims that the spending contained in their budget would be covered by closing so-called “loopholes," the reality is that the budget...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Marshall D. Banks and James Garvin, who helped lead the Langston in the 21st Century Foundation, a non-profit organization that operated youth programs in the District of Columbia, were sentenced today to three years of supervised probation, 80 hours of community service, and ordered to pay full restitution for failing to report and concealing the misappropriation of $392,000 in government grants.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: As the Senate begins to debate Democrats first budget blueprint in nearly four years, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today filed the following health care and human resources related amendments to S.Con.Res. 8, the Senate Budget Resolution for FY 2014...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 35-year-old Arden Hills man was indicted for distributing approximately 12 pounds of methamphetamine. Marcelino Garcia was charged with one count of distribution of methamphetamine and one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Kevin Gerald Forde, aka “Miami Kev," 38, of Newport News, Va., was sentenced today to 300 months in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for his participation in a complex drug trafficking organization operating between New York, California, and the Virginia Peninsula.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Lisa Murkowski today announced an agreement with the Department of the Interior to review the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s opposition to a life-saving road through a remote part of Southwest Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: NORMAN DUCRE, 41 and JAMI DUCRE, 44, residents of Slidell, Louisiana, each pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday before the Honorable Susie Morgan to two counts of willfully making and subscribing a false tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) issued the following joint statement after requesting the Department of Labor provide an analysis that describes how the president’s health care law will affect the wages of America’s workers...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today continued its “Nation of Builders" hearing series with a focus on steel manufacturing.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today concluded the committee’s three-day “Health Information Technologies " hearing series focused on potential regulations and taxes on smartphones, tablets, mobile apps, and other health information...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced the sentencing of Princess L. Eatmon, age 25, formerly a resident of Dougherty County, Georgia, on March 21, 2013, in Albany, by the Honorable W. Louis Sands, United States District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: NETZAHUALCOYOTL GUINTO-ASCENSCIO, age 36, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Jay C. Zainey, announced U.S. Attorney Dana Boente. GUINTO pled guilty to a count one of a three-count indictment charging him with unlawful transfer of a fraudulent identification document.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON- Senator Tom Coburn, M.D., R-Okla., and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., wrote a joint letter today to the United States Postal Service Board of Governors advising them to resist political lobbying and utilize their legal authority to move forward with the modified six-day delivery plan announced on February 6, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Brazilian nationals Juliana Rose Tome-Froes and her husband, Fabio Rodrigues Froes, were sentenced today in Miami to 60 months and 46 months in prison, respectively, for smuggling undocumented migrants to the United States for profit, announced U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida, Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Eric Johansen, Chief of the Peekskill Police Department, and George N. Longworth, Commissioner of the...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today concluded the committee’s three-day “Health Information Technologies " hearing series focused on potential regulations and taxes on smartphones, tablets, mobile apps, and other health information...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Today, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Congressman C. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting an investigation into emergency managers in Michigan. Reps. Conyers and Peters issued this statement following their transmission of the letter to the GAO...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: NORMAN TOUPS, JR., 63, a resident of Jefferson Parish, was sentenced in federal court yesterday to two years probation by U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr., announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente. TOUPS paid full restitution to the Social Security Administration prior to sentencing.
